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Humanae Vitae in the Course of Time 23 Philosophy and Canon Law Vol. 5 Between the Culture of the Right to Responsible Parenthood and the Culture of the “New” Human Rights: Reproductive and Sexual (I) Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego • Katowice 2019 Editor-in-Chief Andrzej Pastwa Deputy Editor-in-Chief Pavol Dancák Members of the Board Krzysztof Wieczorek (Chair of Philosophy Department) Tomasz Gałkowski (Chair of Law Department) International Advisory Board Chair Most Rev. Cyril Vasil’ (Pontifical Oriental Institute, Roma, Italy) Members of the Board Libero Gerosa (Faculty of Theology in Lugano, Switzerland), Wojciech Góralski (Cardinal Ste- fan Wyszyński University, Warsaw, Poland), Stephan Haering (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany), Adrian Loretan (University of Lucerne, Switzerland), Janusz Kowal (Pon- tifical Gregorian University, Roma, Italy), V. Bradley Lewis (Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., USA), Wilhelm Rees (University of Innsbruck, Austria), David L. Schindler (Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., USA), Santiago Sia (National University of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland), Zbigniew Suchecki (Pontifical University Antonianum, Roma, Italy) Referees of the Board Miguel Bedolla (University of Texas, San Antonio, USA), Alexandru Buzalic (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Martin Dojčár (University of Trnava, Slovakia), Michał Drożdż (Pontifical University of John Paul II, Cracow, Poland), Roger Enriquez (University of Texas, San Antonio, USA), Edward Górecki (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic), Kathleen Haney (University of St. Thomas, Houston, USA), John P. Hittinger (University of St. Thomas, Houston, USA), Jiří Kašný (Anglo-American University in Prague, Czech Republic), Piotr Kroczek (Pontifical University of John Paul II, Cracow, Poland), Giuseppe Milan (University of Padova, Italy), Damián Němec (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic), Stanislav Přibyl (University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Czech Republic), Piotr Ryguła (Car- dinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw, Poland), Elżbieta Szczot (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland), Alina Tata (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Wiesław Wójcik (Polish Academy of Sciences) Statistical Editor: Wojciech Świątkiewicz Secretaries: Kinga Karsten, Witold Kania English Language Editor: Michelle Adamowski French Language Editor: Dorota Śliwa Italian Language Editor: Agnieszka Gatti Contents Part One Philosophy Marian Machinek Reproductive Rights versus the Christian Culture of the Body. Two Different Perspectives 7 Marek Petro Encyclical Letter Humanae Vitae in the Course of Time 23 John P. Hittinger John Paul II on Humanae Vitae and the Priority of Ethics over Technology 35 Aneta Gawkowska Humanae Vitae, Women’s Rights, and Responsible Parenthood 69 Mariusz Wojewoda The Problem of Responsible Parenthood in the Axiological Perspective. Analysis Inspired by the Encyclical Paul VI Humane Vitae 83 Krzysztof Wieczorek A Child is a Human Being Now. Responsible Parenthood in the Light of Janusz Korczak’s Pedagogy 97 4 Contents Part Two Reviews John C. Gallagher, A New Dawn, or the Fading of the Light? Culture and Evan- gelization Today — John P. Hittinger 121 Maciej Woźniczka, Marek Perek, Toposy (w) filozofii. Filozofia i jej miejsce w do- świadczeniu kulturowym — Marek Rembierz 125 Maciej Woźniczka, Marek Perek, Apokryficzność (w) filozofii. Nie/anty/pozaorto- doksyjne dyskursy filozoficzne — Marek Rembierz 133 Notes on Contributors 139 Part One Philosophy Philosophy and Canon Law vol. 5 (2019), pp. 7–21 ISSN 2451-2141 https://doi.org/10.31261/PaCL.2019.05.01 Marian Machinek University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1857-1018 Reproductive Rights versus the Christian Culture of the Body Two Different Perspectives Abst ract: The comparison between the concept of sexual and reproductive rights and the idea of gender and the Christian culture of the body with its personalist anthropology reveals their essential differences. The concept of reproductive rights is permeated with individualism, where sex identity can be freely defined, and sexual activities of individuals—provided that they stay within the boundaries of law—are not subjected to any moral norms. The main point of the disagreement between the concept of reproductive rights and the Christian culture of the body concerns the meaning of human corporeality. For the former, human body is, in a certain way, an ‘outside’ of the self-determining subject. According to the latter view, human body participates in man’s dignity as his constituent dimension. Another difference revolves around the meaning of sexual activity. Efforts to force implementation of sexual and reproductive rights, along with gender informed law and culture, are dangerous to the fundamental group unit of society—the family—based on the marriage between man and woman. Key words: human rights, reproductive and sexual rights, Christian culture of the body, encycli- cal Humanae Vitae, gender, personalistic concept of person Introduction In 2018, there were numerous celebrations marking the anniversaries of prom- ulgation of three momentous documents, which are of interest to this paper. Seventy years ago, in 1948, the United Nations proclaimed a milestone docu- 8 Philosophy ment in the modern history of our civilization: Universal Declaration of Hu- man Rights. Its signatories called it the reaction of the outraged “conscience of mankind” to the barbarous acts committed during the Second World War, ended barely three years before.1 The Declaration has become the springboard and the point of reference for various later initiatives addressing basic human rights. Twenty years later, in 1968, the public heard about two other extremely im- portant documents. First, the Proclamation of Teheran, passed as the Final Act of the First International Conference on Human Rights, organized by the United Nations in Teheran.2 Its nineteen articles aspired to demonstrate the importance of human rights and give them necessary prominence in the lives of individuals and societies. The Proclamation reflects twenty years of lively discussions on human rights, and foreshadows later disagreements over their interpretations and efforts to work out further details. The third document of interest to us, proclaimed in the same memorable year 1968, was the encyclical by Pope Paul VI: Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life), subtitled: On the Regulation of Birth.3 No other Church document of the last century caused such fierce controversies, triggered by its refusal to accept artificial methods of birth control. It came less than ten years after the invention of a contraceptive pill,4 and it was immediately labelled as an attack on modernity, social advance, and the progress of medical science. It was precisely what this paper calls the Christian culture of the body, that found its expression in pope’s arguments for the defence of the carnal and spiritual integrity of man in matters related to his sex, sexuality, and procrea- tion, and his relevant moral obligations. Papal stance was in an opposition to the anthropological concept of man, on which present-day demands for the affirma- tion of the reproductive and sexual rights of minorities are based. The objectives of this article are to identify and discuss some of the anthro- pological and ideological origins of the theory of sexual and reproductive rights, compare this theory with the Christian notion of the culture of the body, and demonstrate the most contested differences between these two concepts. 1 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly at its third session on December 10, 1948, in Paris, in France. 2 The Conference met from 22 April to 13 May 1968. 3 The encyclical Humanae Vitae, written by Paul VI, was promulgated on 25 July 1968. 4 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the birth control pill for contra- ceptive use in 1960. Marian Machinek: Reproductive Rights versus the Christian Culture of the Body… 9 An Important Redefinition of Terms The perusal of various papal documents and pronouncements, starting with Re- rum Novarum by Leo XIII (1891), can create an impression that the advocacy of human rights has been the common concern of the Catholic Church and international community for decades. Later popes—John XXII in Pacem in Terris (1963), Paul VI in his address to the United Nations General Assembly in 1965, and John Paul II in his encyclical letters Redemptor Hominis (1979), Laborem Exercens (1981), Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (1987) and Centesimus Annus (1991), and his numerous speeches and addresses—pledged Church’s support for activities defending and promoting human rights, abandoning her previous re- serve, caused by their antireligious and anticlerical overtones, inherited from the French Revolution.5 Whence does the dissonance between the numerous UN en- dorsed programs for the recognition of certain individual claims as human rights (especially those concerning sexual and reproductive rights), and the teaching of the Catholic Church, come from? What makes some people see her as the opponent of human rights? In an attempt to answer these troubling questions, let us first briefly examine the evolution of the idea of human rights. Reading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights one cannot fail to recognize their ori- gins. They are all firmly anchored in man’s rational nature. Every human being has human rights; he is born with them and he dies with them. He never
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